The National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) maintains the Taiwan Advanced Research and Education Network (TWAREN) and developed Light Path monitoring technology in order to provide more stable backbone networking services. In an effort to provide a better networking environment and facilitate the development of advanced networking technologies, the NCHC uses TWAREN to implement research projects including Future Internet, SDN, all-optical network control, and network performance measurements.

In terms of information security and in order to enhance Taiwan’s network security and defense capabilities, the NCHC’s Security Operation Center (SOC) executes R&D in systems security, network security, information mining, and digital evidence analysis. The NCHC's network and information security research achievements include the free software, TWMAN, which is used for malware analysis research, a large-scale Honeyp Pot, Honeynet establishment technology, a malware knowledge database, and the development of an information security platform that is used for experimentation.

Core technologies

Development of an integrated monitoring platform: Integrated the monitoring of the 100GB optical network and routing network onto a single platform.

Developed various all-optical network control technologies (i.e. OXC, ROADM, DWDM, and GMPLS): The NCHC developed optical network and routing network path controls and integration to reduce construction and maintenance costs, strengthen its wavelength service, and increase the networks flexibility.

Established a large multi-national software-defined networking (SDN) testing platform (currently shared between the U.S., Europe, and Japan) as well as developed cross-SDN management and control mechanisms for future cross-organization and cross-cloud operations.

Developed a network performance measurement and monitoring system for the network, developed IPv4/IPv6 high speed online speed test service, and exchanged performance measurement information with other academic networks from around the world.

Developed an integrated monitoring platform for the centralized management and analysis of network administrator messages from Layer1 to Layer3 heterogeneous networks, thus, identifying the most crucial issues and sending warnings.

Developed a backbone network global joint defense system that utilizes the characteristics of backbone networks for cross analysis of information security equipment and information from routers in the backbone. The system can detect possible attack incidents and victims in real-time.

Developed a cross-domain topology automatic detection and flow monitoring system on a multinational SDN testing platform, thus, resolving the issue of controllers in different domains not being able to exchange information. The results were published at the Supercomputing Conference.